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Lo stato solido e la nuova mappa della fisica (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Martin, J. D. (2024, September). Lo stato solido e la nuova mappa della fisica. Presented at XLIV Congresso Nazionale Sisfa, Firenze

Neither solid state nor condensed matter physics existed at the end of World War II. Physical problems related to the properties of materials, of course, have a much longer history, but the physics community was not yet subdivided in a way that recog... Read More about Lo stato solido e la nuova mappa della fisica.

History Of Solid State And Condensed Matter Physics (2025)
Book Chapter
Martin, J. (in press). History Of Solid State And Condensed Matter Physics. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Physics. Oxford University Press

Solid state physics, the branch of physics focused on the physical properties of solid matter, emerged in the mid-twentieth century as physics grew and diversified, both conceptually and professionally. The study of solids and other condensed materia... Read More about History Of Solid State And Condensed Matter Physics.

William Cecil Slingsby and Elizabeth Le Blond in Norway: transnational mountaineering, modernity and temporality, 1870–1910 (2025)
Journal Article
Drury, C. (online). William Cecil Slingsby and Elizabeth Le Blond in Norway: transnational mountaineering, modernity and temporality, 1870–1910. Studies in Travel Writing, https://doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2025.2462540

In both William Cecil Slingsby’s Norway. The Northern Playground (1904) and Elizabeth Le Blond’s Mountaineering in the Land of the Midnight Sun (1908), Norway is presented as an alternative destination for British mountaineers at the beginning of the... Read More about William Cecil Slingsby and Elizabeth Le Blond in Norway: transnational mountaineering, modernity and temporality, 1870–1910.

Acid Test: The AD-X2 Affair and the Political Awakening of American Science (2025)
Journal Article
Martin, J. D. (in press). Acid Test: The AD-X2 Affair and the Political Awakening of American Science. American Quarterly, 77(3),

In March 1953, Allen Astin, Director of the National Bureau of Standards, lost his job. He was fired by Sinclair Weeks, Dwight Eisenhower's newly confirmed Secretary of Commerce. The bureau had concluded that AD-X2, an after-market additive advertise... Read More about Acid Test: The AD-X2 Affair and the Political Awakening of American Science.

Enclosure Riots on the Commons: Memory and Conflict at Lytham Priory, 1200-1540 (2025)
Journal Article
Brown, A. (online). Enclosure Riots on the Commons: Memory and Conflict at Lytham Priory, 1200-1540. The English Historical Review, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceaf003

Enclosure riots in England have been understood through their importance to early modern social history, representing a conflict over rights and access to resources. Driven by Tudor demographic growth, these disputes demarcate changing social relatio... Read More about Enclosure Riots on the Commons: Memory and Conflict at Lytham Priory, 1200-1540.

Past Caring: Archive, Affect, and Whiteness in Digital Colourisation (2025)
Journal Article
Riggs, C. (2025). Past Caring: Archive, Affect, and Whiteness in Digital Colourisation. Visual Studies, 40(1), 56-69. https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2024.2415904

The digital colourisation of historical photographs has received prominent and favourable media attention since the 2010s; several museums, heritage organisations, and publishers have adopted it. In the US and British contexts, both the selection of... Read More about Past Caring: Archive, Affect, and Whiteness in Digital Colourisation.

‘A Pageant Apart from Politics’: The Opening of the South African Parliament, 1910–2020 (2025)
Journal Article
Johnson, R. (2025). ‘A Pageant Apart from Politics’: The Opening of the South African Parliament, 1910–2020. Parliamentary History, 44(1), 163-180. https://doi.org/10.1111/1750-0206.12783

In Westminster‐model institutions of which the South African parliament is one, an opening ceremony takes place annually at the start of a parliamentary session. In the South African context in the early 20th century, it involved a speech by the gove... Read More about ‘A Pageant Apart from Politics’: The Opening of the South African Parliament, 1910–2020.